Memo and Buzz

Oh dear, Disney. We now fully understand the power you have over our lives. Your characters and colourful stories are so strong, the pull you have on all our youngsters is unchallengeable.
We promise to:

1. Always let the boys watch 'Finding Nemo' upon hearing their demands of 'Memo! Memo' 
2. Always pop the Toy Story DVD into the player upon their shouts of 'Buzz! Buzz!"

Your power is complete and resistance is most definitely futile....

Ugg Boy

Theo wearing one of Clair's Christmas presents (in his pyjamas!). Note the graze on his upper lip and nose. The result of a trip and fall onto concrete! Good lad....

Theo and Charlie at 2 years and 3 months

New Year in the Woods

We bridged the inevitable lull between Christmas and New Year by spending a week at Center Parcs in Longleat. Despite the cold, frost and sub-zero temperatures, we still thought it would be a good idea to hire a couple of bikes and a trailer for the boys - skis may well have been more appropriate!

Once again, we had a really great time. It was considerably more exhausting than when we went in April - mainly due to the constant on / off of coats, hats and gloves and the fact the boys weigh so much more now than they did 8 months ago, but we still enjoyed ourselves immensely.

We did lots more activities with the boys than before including water / sand / plasticine play and even a teddy bears picnic but still found time to put them in the creche for a few hours and make full use of the spa facilities! The boys also enjoyed their first proper Indian meal in an Indian restaurant!

Let It Snow....

It seems like only last year that we were out in the snow with the boys! Oh, it was this time last year.....

We borrowed some of our neighbours sleds to take them out earlier today. They loved it!

He's Behind You!

We took the boys to see Aladdin at our local theatre on Christmas Eve.

We knew they'd probably be a bit young for it but thought it would be fun anyway. I think the biggest 'star' there was someone who'd managed to last the full 3 minutes on 'Let Me Entertain You' with Brian Conley. Talent indeed....

The boys managed to keep still in their seats for approximately 20 minutes! Despite a couple of 'magic wands' (see pic), other assorted toys, biscuits, drinks etc to distract them it was a fruitless task and after the interval, we found an empty box which gave the boys a bit of space to run around in.



In the end we managed to last the full 2.5 hours (far too long in my opinion regardless of age) but maybe we'll wait a couple more years before we go again. I think everyone else will thank us too!